What do you do when the urge to eat something unhealthy comes over you? Do you resist or do you fold and comply? The answer to this question lies in how willing you are to deal with the discomfort that it causes. For most people, caving into temptation is a sure sign of their reluctance or unwillingness to suffer through the discomfort associated with NOT giving in to this urge. That’s the real issue here. What keeps most people from reaching their health goal is this overwhelming and intense desire to avoid the discomfort associated with change.

I have tracked and monitored the issue of psychodynamics and discomfort for years. I have gathered information on over 55,000 overweight individuals and have found the following to be true: Seventy-five percent of all overweight people have a serious problem with discomfort. That’s a very significant number of people. This is a major issue and serious obstacle for a great many of you. There are actually two kinds of discomfort. There is physical discomfort and psychological discomfort. Physical discomfort can best be described as hunger pangs. This is the physical reaction that your body has to eating less or different foods. Even though this can be a major problem for some, physical discomfort is typically a minor issue for most people.

The more serious assault on your quest for healthy living is psychological discomfort. This is what most people deal with most of the time. For most, it is an intense and emotional struggle to withstand the discomfort associated with denying themselves something that they want. This is the type of discomfort that I have studied and monitored through the years and it is a very serious problem for a great many of you. Think about this issue of discomfort and see if it doesn’t ring true for you. The more you can understand about the underlying psychodynamics of how and why you make the choices that you make, the better position you are in to create healthy lifestyle change.